“Safe water and sanitation are now recognised as human rights but over one billion people do not have access to water and over two and a half billion people are without sanitation. A child dies every 15 seconds from water-related diseases as a result.

World toilet day helps WaterAid mark the fact that 2.6 billion people do not have somewhere safe, private or hygienic to go to the toilet.”

you can help calling awareness to the situation by, for instance, knitting a river or getting involved, if you can. more on wateraid, here.